Sentences with phrase «of hydropower projects»

Advising on judicial reviews and nuisance claims arising from a variety of hydropower projects and other schemes.

An estimated 40 - 80 million people have been displaced from ancestral homes because of hydropower projects.

Friday, April 27th at 7:30 pm, Hartland Public Library Community Room, Hartland Three Corners Free film screening «SEEKING THE CURRENT ««Seeking the Current» depicts the voyage of the filmmakers Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere, canoeing the entire course of the pristine Romaine River one year before Hydro - Quebec started construction on a new $ 8 billion complex of hydropower projects there.

The presence of an extensive amount of hydropower projects currently under construction will drive this market.

Having see what some big dams have done to Swedish Lappland, for example, I feel like trading some of those hydropower projects for nuclear energy might have been a net plus for the environment.

In the last decade more than 60 percent of all hydropower projects worldwide were in China and Three Gorges alone will avoid the emission of an estimated 95 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — more than the combined output of Norway and Sweden.

Not exact matches

«This project draws on two of our greatest competitive advantages — clean, self - generated hydropower and leading - edge AP smelting technology.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the time of the Indian Point closure announcement that up to 1,000 megawatts of power could come from the planned $ 2.2 billion Champlain Hudson Power Express project, which would bring hydropower from Canada to the New York metropolitan area.

43North has been the single largest recipient of a special fund created to ensure Western New York gets its fair share of profits from the sale of hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston.

MASSENA - Legislation was signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today that may help spur economic development in St. Lawrence County through the sale of a block of hydropower from the St. Lawrence - Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project.

Buhari said while the borrowed funds would be used to finance the deficit in the 2017 budget, they would provide funding for the capital projects in the budget, including the Mambilla hydropower project; construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; counterpart funding for rail projects; and the construction of the Bodo - Bonny road, with a bridge across the Opobo Channel.

Passage of the bill would specify a variety of timeframes and procedures for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to follow in carrying out required permitting and licensing activities for non-federal hydropower projects and would make FERC the lead agency for coordinating all applicable federal authorizations.

It would extend, from three years to four, the duration of a preliminary permit for proposed non-federal hydropower projects and would allow project sponsors to initiate construction up to 10 years after a proposed project receives a license from FERC.

NYPA President and CEO Richard M. Kessel said: «Under Governor Paterson's leadership, the Power Authority made it the highest priority to negotiate contract extensions with the Niagara Project's more than 100 business customers to optimize the benefits of the low - cost hydropower for the Niagara Frontier economy.

There is no doubt that one of the biggest economic assets to the region is the low - cost hydropower created at the Niagara Power Project.

In addition to Praxair, some of the more than 100 companies that receive low - cost hydropower from the Niagara Power Project include Ford Motor Company, 3M, DuPont, General Mills and Nestle Purina.

Now, to foster a less confrontational way of advancing projects, the hydropower industry, environmental and human - rights organizations, and representatives from banks and governments have negotiated a mechanism for evaluating, and perhaps mitigating, the impact of dams before they are built.

If a hydropower project fails to fulfill expectations due to the effects of climate change, governments could struggle to pay back loans from development investors.

«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The solution, according to the Conservancy, is to plan hydropower development on a watershed level rather than allowing the proliferation of projects from various levels of government: county, township, city, provincial and even national.

He added that climate models project that the southern area of Brazil will see more rain, which could increase the existing hydropower capacity and help offset losses in the north.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

Verdant, which operates its kinetic (non-dam) hydropower project in the East River under a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), plans to by the end of the year apply for a FERC pilot commercial license that would allow the company to create a field of up to 40 underwater turbines with up to 1.5 megawatts of capacity.

Whereas hydropower used to provide the bulk of Kenya's power ongoing droughts have led investors to pull out of hydro projects; power rationing and epic blackouts are common.

The Berkeley, Calif. — based organization International Rivers discovered that a third of the CDM's hydropower projects had been completed before they were accredited.

Started in 1982 - 83, the multipurpose project was planned for irrigation, hydropower generation and water supply2harnessing the water resources of river Subarnarekha for irrigation, flood control and municipal and industrial use (Government of Bihar, 1988).

Our project experience encompasses a wide range of technologies, including mid-sized wind, solar, small hydropower, biomass fuel substitution, biogas production, methane destruction at dairy farms and landfills, transportation efficiency and residential water filtration in developing countries.

These types of extreme events are projected to increase in the future, putting at risk Oregonians» access to safe and adequate water supplies, hydropower, and transportation.

Pacific Hydro has recognized the potential of glacier fed alpine streams for hydropower in Chile and has built a facility on the glacier fed Cachapoal Rivers and is developing projects on the Tinguiririca River.

The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP) is a voluntary, non-binding auditing tool that allows dam builders to score the sustainability of their own dam projects.

Austria generates 70 % of its electricity from hydropower, with many of the larger projects being glacier fed such as Kaprun.

Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large hydropower projects.

This is not surprising considering that hydropower is heavily supported and subsidized in many countries, especially in China and India, who host a combined 78 % of all the registered hydropower projects in the CDM.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

Fossil fuels and large hydropower accounted for only 4 percent of energy access financing, showing again that investing in large, conventional energy projects is not an effective way to increase energy access.

According to Carbon Market Watch, it's hard to prove that the European Union's offset program is actually creating the kind of emission savings it alleges for a large number of wind, hydropower and biomass energy offset projects.

The report includes all biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million liters or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small - scale projects, or small distributed capacity.

The Myitsone Dam, a 6,000 megawatt hydropower project, was slated to be built on the critical watersheds of the Irrawaddy River, displacing 18,000 people from nearly 50 villages and submerge their cultural heartland.

In the U.S., large - scale renewable projects plus conventional hydropower are expected to account for 14 percent of total electricity generation in 2016, a 9 percent rise from 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.

Vimal Bhai is the founder of Matu Jan Sangathan, a collective that has been advocating for rights of communities impacted by large hydropower projects and dams in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

Assuming each of the 847 large hydropower projects that are planned or under construction has an equivalent surface area, this would constitute 225,691 km2 of additional reservoir surface area, nearly doubling current reservoir surface - area estimates.

Washington DC — According to the latest «Energy Infrastructure Update» report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower provided 88.2 % of new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity for the month of May.

Several of the large hydropower projects involved refurbishing existing plants rather than constructing new ones.

Mega Projects 8 October, 2011 — Bhutan ambitious plan to tap 10,000 MW of hydropower by 2020 (eight years and two months from now) may be following a clean and green path, but what has not been talked about is how it [continue reading...]

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

Critics of «clean coal» contend that there is no such thing as «clean coal,» since even technology projected by 2020 will still release large amounts of pollutants compared to renewable energy sources such as wind, concentrated solar power, photovoltaic power, hydropower, and geothermal power.

Hydropower projects encompass dam projects with reservoirs, run - of - river and in - stream projects and range from small to large scale.

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If the proposed hydropower and gas projects were combined, they'd represent a microcosm of a Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure.

Some of the prominent hydropower projects in China include the Baihetan dam (expected to be completed in 2019), the Wudongde and Xiangjiaba dam (expected to be completed in 2015) and the Xiluodo project.